Market report · August 19, 2025 – August 19, 2026

Fort Lauderdale — how the market actually moved.

Every number below is measured off the homes that actually closed in Fort Lauderdale over the last twelve months, compared with the twelve months before it. No estimates, no national averages.

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By the numbers

Fort Lauderdale at a glance

Trailing twelve months against the twelve months before.

Homes sold

3,365

up ↑ 1.1% on the year

Dollar volume

$3.47B

up ↑ 12.1% on the year

Median price

$535,000

up ↑ 3.9% on the year

Median $/sq ft

$391

up ↑ 0.2% on the year

Days on market

up ↑ 6.8% on the year

Sale to list

95.5%

down ↓ 0.2 points on the year

For sale now

645

live listings today

Months of supply

2.3

how long to clear at this pace

Source: our own MLS closings (3,365 sales), measured August 19, 2026

The market was busier than a year ago: 3,365 homes closed, sales up 1.1%.
Half of everything that sold went for more than $535,000, the middle price up 3.9%.
A typical home took 63 days to go under contract, time on market up 6.8%.
Sellers took 4.5% below their asking price at the middle of the market — a home listed at $525,000 closed near $501,227.
At today's pace the 645 homes for sale would take 2.3 months to clear — sellers hold the cards.

Demand and pricing

Eight years, same measuring stick

Homes sold each year

20191,822

20204,073

20216,005

20224,408

20233,471

20243,506

20253,282

20262,192

2026 is a part year — it only counts closings up to today.

Middle price each year

2019$335,000

2020$385,000

2021$440,000

2022$497,000

2023$510,000

2024$520,000

2025$522,000

2026$550,000

Source: Brainiac’s Corner city rollup (bc_city_year), built from our MLS closings

The focused cut

Same twelve months, ZIP by ZIP

A city median hides a lot. This is as fine as the data goes before a median stops meaning anything.

ZIP	Sold	Median price	$/sq ft	Days on market	Sale to list	Share that is Fort Lauderdale
33308	827	$500,000	$374	76	94.5%	88%
33312	568	$489,750	$352	49	96.6%	76%
33311	567	$380,000	$299	48	98.0%	61%
33304	451	$745,000	$471	84	94.8%	100%
33301	392	$975,000	$528	77	95.1%	100%
33305	308	$779,500	$491	62	95.3%	62%
33316	246	$997,000	$553	70	93.4%	100%
33315	218	$585,000	$402	76	96.2%	100%
33306	86	$893,154	$484	46	95.5%	79%

Each row is the whole ZIP, not this city’s slice of it, so the rows add up to more than the 3,365 sales in Fort Lauderdale itself. Showing the 9 ZIPs where Fort Lauderdale is the majority of sales and at least 25 homes changed hands. 17 more ZIPs carry a Fort Lauderdale address but belong mostly to a neighbouring city — 33309 (22.0% Fort Lauderdale), 33334 (18.6% Fort Lauderdale), 33317 (11.5% Fort Lauderdale), 33321 (3.6% Fort Lauderdale). They are left out rather than printed as a Fort Lauderdale number.

Source: our own MLS closings

Renting

What tenants actually signed for

Closed leases, never asking prices. Bedroom counts are never blended — a studio median and a 3-bedroom median are different markets.

Size	Leases signed	Median rent
Studio	174	$1,450
1 bedroom	1,380	$1,750
2 bedroom	1,534	$2,400
3 bedroom	872	$3,500
4 bedroom	235	$4,990
5 bedroom	48	$6,625

Across all sizes, 4,254 leases closed at a middle rent of $2,300 a month.

Source: our own MLS closed leases

What a feature is worth

The premium, in dollars per square foot

Feature	With it	Without it	Difference	Sales compared
Waterfront	$467	$366	+28%	2,526 vs 4,101
Pool	$456	$381	+20%	1,401 vs 5,226
Newly built (Single-family)	$747	$421	+78%	194 vs 2,914

A premium is a price difference, not proof the feature caused it — waterfront homes are often bigger and newer too.

Source: Brainiac’s Corner premium study (bc_premiums, bc_newbuild)

Investment sales

Income and commercial, same twelve months

Kind	Sold	Dollar volume	Median price
Small income property (2+ doors)	175	$133M	$675,000
Commercial	92	$106M	$672,500

Source: our own MLS closings, Residential Income and Commercial Sale

The ground underneath

Jobs, people and money

Housing follows the local economy. These are the free public numbers behind the market, not our data.

The county economy

Measure	Latest	Year on year	As of
Unemployment rate	4.5%	+0.8 points	June 1, 2026 (FLBROW5URN)
Population	2,013,317	-0.0%	January 1, 2025 (FLBROW5POP)
Income per person	$74,506	+4.1%	January 1, 2024 (PCPI12011)
New housing units permitted	2,690	+62.5%	January 1, 2025 (BPPRIV012011)

Source: Federal Reserve (FRED), Broward County, FL

Who lives in Fort Lauderdale

Measure	Value
People	183,032
Median household income	$79,935
Median gross rent	$1,776
Median home value (self-reported)	$455,600
Homes owned rather than rented	53.8%

Source: US Census, American Community Survey 2023 5-year

The economy figures are county-wide — that is as fine as the federal data goes. The Census figures are for the city itself, and lag by a year or two because that is when the survey lands.

Before you lean on a number

How this was measured

Sales are closed transactions from our own MLS feed — not asking prices, not estimates, not a national model.
The window is the twelve months to August 19, 2026, compared with the twelve months before it. Same window on both sides, always.
Every headline figure is a median — the middle sale. One mansion cannot drag it.
A ZIP needs at least 25 sales to get a row. Thinner ones are counted in the footnote instead of given a median.
Rents are closed leases, kept separate by bedroom count. We never blend a studio into a three-bedroom median.
Economy figures come from the Federal Reserve and the US Census, free and public, with the series name printed next to each one so you can check it.